FHA (Federal Housing Administration)

• What does the FHA stand for?

  Federal Housing Administration
• When was the FHA set up?

  1934
• What was the aim of the FHA?

  To help homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages
• Why did the FHA do little to help black Americans?

  They did little to help the poor inner-city areas where many black families lived
• What did the federal government refuse to do?

  Guarantee mortgages for houses purchased by black families in white neighbourhoods
• What did Federal housing loans do?

  They deliberately preserved the racial composition of neighbourhoods
• When was the Wagner-Steagall National Housing Act?

  September 1937
• What did the Wagner-Steagall National Housing Act aim to do?

  Build new low-rent housing to replace slums
• Why was the W-SHA ineffective?

  It was under-funded by Congress and only 160,000 homes were built by 1941